Deadly crash case ends with 90-day sentence

Driver who killed Marion grandfather sentenced for vehicular homicide

4:35 PM,
Jun. 19, 2014

Melissa Messenger told a packed courtroom that she lost her best friend and soulmate when her husband George Messenger was killled on Oct. 30, 2014. Messenger addressed the court during a sentencing hearing for Joel Crosley while family members display an enlarged photo of herself and her husband George Messenger from a weekend last summer at Port Clinton. Crosley was sentenced to 90 days in jail for the offense by Common Pleas Judge Jim Slagle on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. James Miller/The Marion Star

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A man who admitted to striking and killing a driver last fall is expected to serve a month in jail.

Joel R. Crosley was sentenced to 90 days jail, with 60 of those days suspended, for an incident in which he ran a stop sign Oct. 30.

"I'm so truly sorry," Crosley said as he held back tears Wednesday at the Marion County Court of Common Pleas. He addressed the family of the victim, George Underwood, as well as his own family and supporters in the audience. ...